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“They needed something slow for the romantic scenes with Tom Cruise and Kelly McGillis… The components are the five-note motif, the melody and the distinctive bass sound with a key change in the middle”: The genius of Giorgio Moroder in an ’80s classic

“Giorgio could have farted and I would have sung it!”

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“I walked in… and Joni Mitchell was in baby blue pyjamas. She said, ‘Have a seat.’ And we talked about music. I wrote You Get What You Give the same day”: How a weird dream inspired the New Radicals’ classic ’90s hit

And the song was so good it convinced Joni not to quit the music industry

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“I remember asking if there was another way of expressing whether God was ‘just a slob like one of us’ but he insisted that line would grab people’s attention”: How a catchy and idiosyncratic track became a ’90s classic covered by Prince

"I knew that we were going to be hearing this for the rest of our lives”

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“I remember asking if there was another way of expressing whether God was ‘just a slob like one of us’ – but he insisted that line would grab people’s attention”: How a catchy and idiosyncratic track became a ’90s classic covered by Prince

"I knew that we were going to be hearing this for the rest of our lives”

MusicRadar

How Trump’s love for crypto threatens US residents’ peace: ‘I just want quiet’

Cryptocurrency mining facilities can blanket towns with ‘constant’ noise. They’re likely to get louder under Trump

The Guardian - US

Save live music by taking a tip from Irish folk

Letters: Any live music needs thriving grassroots, writes Ian Stock, while Chris Hodgkins calls for a ‘Marshall plan for the arts’

The Guardian - UK

Bunting, King Charles masks and plenty of cake as Brits enjoy Coronation street parties

When it comes to celebrating a big event nobody does it quite like the British. The Mirror joined revellers at Coronation Big Lunches and street parties across the country to get in the Coronation spirit

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Broken promises in a Liverpool community that halved in size

After seeing its population plummet by 60% from 1971 to 1991, Everton is no stranger to huge change, but when it comes to politics its not so easy to move the dial

Liverpool Echo

‘Our children will know who we were by our vinyl’: the magic and mayhem of running a record shop

Record Store Day will have music fans queuing up this weekend – but how do these shops survive, and what do they bring to the high street in 2023? Our writer puts in a shift at Jumbo in Leeds to find out

The Guardian - UK

Counting the costs on the north Liverpool Streets with no 'heart'

Potential funding has been earmarked for Great Homer Street and Scotland Road, but residents still bear the scars of a development they say ‘ripped the heart’ out of the community

Liverpool Echo

Sex Pistols drama charts rise and fall of punk band who mocked the Queen at Jubilee

They may have only last two and a half years before self-destructing but decades on the Sex Pistols' punk legacy lives on in an era eerily similar.

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